A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
Written by Joseph Plumb Martin
Narrated by Michael Baker
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Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted man. His memoirs tell in detail his experiences during that time...the bitter cold, hunger, loss of life, long marches, and fear of battle. He also includes tales of fishing, hunting, and other activities...including encounters with a "saucy miss". His narrative reveals much about American life at the time and is one of the fullest and best accounts of the Revolutionary War, presented from a private's point of view.
The book has been later republished under the names Private Yankee Doodle and Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier.
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Reviews for A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very dry. But quite interesting to understand what revolutionary soldiers endured to ensure our freedom.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The person’s eye view of the Revolutionary War is fascinating, the mundane, the constant search for food, the crazy trash talking of the enemies to each other across a field.
Sure, I wish the reader was a bit more talented, but it is pardonable, because the soldier suffered more than I did from this stilted monotone reading. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I like that it was about more day to day life and what the personal accounts of the soldier/ narrative was rather than military and war battles.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5incredible detail,... Lucid writing and riveting day-to-day accounts of the Revolutionary War, from the point of view of one Plumb Martin
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The only definitive work from a private soldier that actually gives accounts not necessarily found in detail in history books.
The recording is poor in parts though. Many parts go missing. Will have to find another recording not read it from a book.